The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1887-09-03

The loss is very heavy. The fire caught from
an engine on the Chicago and Alton. phere
has been no rain since the second ofJuly
John Golden, aged A years, was killed on
Monday morning in Dayton's nut and bolt
works, at Newport, Kentucky. His arm
caught in belt and dashed heavy pair of
shears, which he held in his hand, against his
head, causing instant death.
While farm hands where thrashing on the
farm. of Lyman Curtis, of Flint, Mich. on
Tuesday, the grain stack caught fire and the
steam boiler exploded, killing Daniel Steeger
and severely injuring William lockwood,
John Bennett and three young women who
were assisting.
An Albany thief was himself the loser by
one of his thefts-although not captured, be
stole what apparently was sack of coffee,
from in front of grocery, and paid team
of safety. On opening the booty he found
that instead of coffee it contained sand.
The heaviest rain of the season at Raleigh,
North Carolina, fell there on Saturday morn
ing. From three to nine o'clock the rainfall
was Al inches. Great damage was done to
all the crops on the low grounds, and washouts
occurred on the North Carolina and Raleigh
and Augusta Railroads.
Some time ago in Syracuse, Kan, when the
nomination of candidates for councils was
under consideration, it was suggested, as o
Joke, that ticket composed entirely of women
be prepared. The joke went a step further,
the ticket was prepared and now at the cleo
ton just held it has come out successful.
| Robert Bonner drove Maud S on the three
quarter mile track on his farm at Tarrytown.
! New York, on Saturday, in what is claimed
| to have been the fastest mile that has ever
been made to wagon. The first half was made
in /. O8I, and the last half in 1.044, making
the mile in 21SI. Mr.. Bonner weighs 80
pounds over the regulation weight, which is
$50 pounds.
Albert Howell, 80 years Of age, a letter
carrier, was held in $500 bail in Boston on
Monday on the charge of stealing letters. 1t
is alleged that he took letters from the boxes
of other carriers before they had been put in
the pouches, and he is believed to have been
stealing for six months. He was ostenta-
tiously pious, keeping Bible in his desk and
reading it at noontime.
w. J. Burk, the defaulting Treasurer Of
Galveston county, Texas, who disappeared
last November shortage of $40, 600 having
been found in his accounts-appeared in the
Office ofthe Associated Press in San Francisco
on Friday of last week, and said he desired tc
return to Galveston and plead guilty. He
returned $l3,0 900 worth of bonds, and exhih
tied receipt showing that he had shipped thu
bonds by express. -, =
i A crippled child, which had been barbar
nusly abused by its stepfather, John Water
side. at Smiley, near Monroeville, Indiana
died on Sunday from the effects of the erue
treatment it had received. The mother also
treated the child with horrible cruelty anC
neglect, and both parents took special de
light in manning it. The stepfather is I'M Jail
and the mother will be placed there as sool
as officers can find her.
i Acting Land Commissioner Stockslager ha
taken steps to carry into effect Seeretar.
Lamar's recent order directing tho restoration
to settlement and entry Of the unimproved
indemnity selections of the California ant
Oregon Railroad Company in California. Th'
road runs from Roseville, near Sacramento
to the California and Oregon line, a distance
Of 296 miles, and the order of restoration,
is said, will affect about 10000 acres.
Albert A. Meade shot and killed Harve
Meade, Joe Downing and Mr.. Hands on Fri
day of last week in fight over the Las Luce
milling and mining property at Good Hope
New Mexico, in which they were jointly in
terested. Fred. Meade, after being fred a
FIVE times by Albert A. Meade, wrested
Winchester rife from him and shot hin
through the heart. a eoroner's inquest re
suited in the acquittal Of Fred. Meade.
The Secretary of the State Board of Agri
culture of Illinois has received from Professo
! Forbes, the State Entomolosist, discourae
ing report in reference to the distribution o
the chinch bug throughout the State. Th
Professor says: ut ia very destructive i
thirty counties, occurs in large numbers i
sixteen others, in moderate numbers in sew
/ .o1Ix ind,
, rious, but sufficient TO threaten her.n anothe
year, in twenty five, while from thirteen coun
ties it is reported as practically absent"
A wonderful clock is nearing completion q
Waterbury, Conn. 1t has been FIVE years j
construction, will be eighteen feet high, eigh
| feet wide and seven feet deep. The moo
and planets are given in I'll their phases
Several hundred figures represent distinguish
ed men, and are carefully carved from goo
| likenesses. The signers of the Declaration G
Independence and Lincoln's Cabinet at tn
signing OF the Emancipation Proclamation
!: are exhibited. Bible, Shakespearean an
other historical scenes are also acted by thi
, wonderful time piece.
s riot occurred at colored Sunday schoc
celebration in Decatur, Georgia, on Saturda
, afternoon, caused by liquor, A dranke
oolored man went through the crowds Q
women and children hourshing and diseharQ
/ ing revolver. The managers sent for off
GERS, and Marshal Heard, Sheriff Austin an
others appeared. The drunken man fred q
them and ran. He was pursued by the pess
+ and cornered, when he fred on his pursuers
f and other colored men who had gathere
a fired on the whites from the rear. The crow
of whites and blacks by this time numbere
> several hundreds, and in the fusiade Marsha
I Heard and colored man were shot dead, an
E Thomas Shvers, white, was MORALLY wounded
1t was reported from Galena, Illinois, las
week, that the fish in many of the streams o
I that section have died by the million, and th
few that are left are rapidly following suit
+ The banks of the Galena river branches ar
lined with dead fish of all sizes aud varieties
!, At Buncombe, Wisconsin, few miles from
{ Galena, dead fish are so numerous ON TIL
, banks that the stencil arising from them
4 almost unbearable. At Lancaster, Wiscon
+ sin, upwards of fifty wagon loads Of dead ifs
: are in sight. One of the theories as to th
/ cause is, that the recent rains have filed th
water with mud, so that the fish have bee
r unable to breathe, and, struggling to the SUI
/ face for air, have died. Another is that d.
J ring the dry, hot summer, the valleys an
! marshes above were filed with some poison
GUS growth that, with the recent foods, wa
carried into the streams and poisoned III
water.
The Baltimore Manufacturer Recor
prints Eve pages of special reports from tn
entire South, giving a favorable account o
} the crops and business prospects Of that sec
D ton. ssThe corn crop Of the South is UMPIRE
I Gently large, exceeding the yield of 1886 b
r over fifty million bushels, the yield of 1885 b
+ seventy million bushels and the yield Of 1873
J by one hundred and seven million bushels
The South will this year be nearly self SUP
! porting in the matter of corn, and many mil
lions Of dollars that have heretofore gon
! west for corn will this season be saved I
Southern farmers. While recent unfayorabI
f weather has damaged to some extent the col
ton prospects which, a month ago, promise
such an enormous yield, the crop will still b
! large one. Advanced prices for tobacco
. yill, 1t is claimed, eounterbalapce to Ii
! farmers the decrease in yield, due mainly t
/ decreased acreage. Other crops have, wit
few exceptions, been very good